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The Giveaway has Begun!!!

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Hi.

Just a little tidbit about me: Christy Nockels is one of my favorite female artists.

So, we’ll be giving away THREE copies of Christy Nockels’ latest CD – Life Light Up – on this here blog! I’m so crazy excited about this (thanks to Kat’s secret life). I’ve been listening to Christy’s album for the past few days and there are some serious treasures to be had. I’ve put “A Mighty Fortress” and “By Our Love” on repeat and can’t get enough.

To participate, all you have to do is leave a question in the comment section – namely, something that would spark a potential blog post in my corner of the www. (This is what you call a win-win: I win by collecting blog post ideas, and you win by possibly getting a free copy of the album).

Submissions will be received until noon (eastern standard time) on Friday, July 31st. At that time, I will allow my crazy husband to pick his three favorite questions, and those three commenters will be the winners – announced later that day. Yay! You’ve got 48 hours to rock it!

If I don’t, I won’t.

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When I took up the challenge to write 100 songs this year, I didn’t know where all this would take me…

And I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve already grown.

I recently finished a song that (I think) has potential. I’m not saying it will ever be a hit; I’m simply saying it’s a good song. I’ve been working on this one since February, and I knew it was special when I first started it. Please understand, the songwriting process is like finding a shiny coin on the sidewalk. You notice it, pick it up, & then decide what to do with it. I truly feel like I wander into song ideas. And then I have to figure out what to do with them.

This time, I’ve decided to let this song explore some possibilities. Yesterday I entered it in a pretty well known songwriting contest. My heart pounded when I decided to do this.

But it’s not about winning. I don’t care if I win. I just care about being a songwriter who stewards the songs she has. And I’m taking baby steps this year to do that… Writing. Reading. Learning. Listening. Writing some more.

And taking care of the good songs that I pick up along the way.

This is what gets me excited. This is what makes my heart pound.

Please don’t get the wrong idea here. I am highly uncomfortable with self promotion (so much so that I even hesitated to even write this post), and feel presumptuous submitting a song. But, if this is who I want to be, then I need to start acting like I am. Right?

So, if I don’t submit this song, then I won’t.

And I don’t want to “won’t.”

I want to say that I did.